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The lunar occultation of Venus on this date was the second lunar occultation of the Venus in the same year. [13] 2020 Venus was eclipsed by the Moon at 19 June 2020 from 9:44:15 - 10:46:12 PM (UTC+2). [14] [15] 2021 In the year 2021, Venus was occultated on 8 November. [16] The occultation was observed from the Eastern part of Asia. [17] 2023
Occultation of Uranus during the lunar eclipse on 8 November 2022. Occultation of a star by the Moon. The term occultation is most frequently used to describe lunar occultations, those relatively frequent occasions when the Moon passes in front of a star during the course of its orbital motion around the Earth.
In astronomy, planetary transits and occultations occur when a planet passes in front of another object, as seen by an observer.The occulted object may be a distant star, but in rare cases it may be another planet, in which case the event is called a mutual planetary occultation or mutual planetary transit, depending on the relative apparent diameters of the objects.
A lunar occultation Although the next eclipse is still months away (there will be a partial lunar eclipse on Sept. 17), the moon will block out a bright light in the sky on July 13.
The first full moon of 2025 is called the Wolf Moon. It's also a supermoon, set to appear in night skies Jan. 13, and will pass in front of Mars during a phenomenon known as occultation.
The moon will be in totality and turn the color of blood (well, orange-ish at least) from 2:26 a.m. until 3:31 a.m. And the eclipse ends as the moon returns to normal brightness at 4:47 a.m.
Although mutual occultations of planets had been recorded in 581, [1] 1170, [2] 1590, [3] and 1737, [4] the first attempt to list past and future occultations of that nature was not made until 1970 during a manual search for conjunctions, in which Jan Meeus and Michael Walch discovered further occultations in 1522 [a] and 1570, [b] published in ...
A conjunction of Venus and Jupiter occurred on 1 December 2008, and several hours later both planets separately reached conjunction with the crescent Moon. [14] An occultation of Venus by the Moon was visible from some locations. [15] The three objects appeared close together in the sky from any location on the Earth.